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View of the Guliya Ice Cap on the Tibetan Plateau, showing a steep wall of exposed glacial ice beside rocky terrain, with a person standing in the foreground.

Lonnie Thompson and colleagues recently published new research in Science Advances revealing that ice preserved within the Guliya Ice Cap in northwestern Tibet dates back more than 100…

A group of researchers hiking the summit of Nevado Huascarán surrounded by snowy mountains.

Kara Lamantia and her colleagues recently published research in Nature using ice cores from Peru’s Nevado Huascarán to produce the first global record of historical tropical methane. The…

Line graphs showing mineral dust concentrations in Huascarán ice cores from 1960–2019. Dust deposition increases over time, with the largest particles contributing most of the dust mass.

Austin Weber and his colleagues recently published “On the Influence of Mineral Dust on Glacial Albedo at Nevado Huascarán (Cordillera Blanca, Peru)” in Journal of Geophysical…

A world map showing river storage variability across 61 basins, shaded from light to dark blue to indicate increasing variability. South America’s northern basin shows the highest values. Gray shading marks areas not assessed, including Antarctica.

The Ohio State University, School of Earth Sciences (SES) Professor and Interim Director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Michael Durand and his team have been published in…

A map of North America showing bird‑decline intensity, with red and orange clusters in the U.S. Midwest and lighter yellow and green areas elsewhere.

Marta Jarzyna, associate professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology and principal investigator at the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, and her colleagues have…

Ellen Mosley-Thompson smiling wearing a bright-blue zip-up jacket leaning against a railing.

Ken Jezek is the lead author, and Joel Johnson is a co-author.

Corresponding authors: Giovanni Macelloni, and others.

Wideband Radiometry From P to S Band for Monitoring Polar…

An  engineered spherical SiO₂ microparticle.

A team of scientists, including several affiliated with The Ohio State University, has made significant progress in understanding how to more accurately measure nanoparticles and microparticles…

Thatched roof houses. Rural life, a remote paradise island under blue skies and white clouds and palms.

A recent international study published in Nature Communications has unveiled a new forecasting method that significantly enhances the prediction of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO)…

A helicopter parked on a tarmac with a mountain in the background under a clear blue sky.

A new study published by Cambridge University Press 's Journal of Glaciology presents critical findings from a 2019 expedition to Nevado Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain and home to one…

Aerial  of a large river winding in green valley

A new study published in Science of Remote Sensing presents a substantial improvement in reconstructing missing data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and its…

Cover page of the Climate Change in the American Mind report

A new report titled Climate Change in the American Mind: Politics and Policy, Fall 2024 published by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YCCC), explores how American voters…

An Icefjord in Greenland, with large chunks of ice floating on the water under a cloudy sky, with rugged terrain in the foreground.

In a recent study published in Nature, an international research team including Michael Bevis and C.K. Shum—professors at The Ohio State University's School of Earth Sciences and…

West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier.

Last month, the European Geosciences Union's (EGU's) The Cryosphere published a study investigating the interaction between ice-shelf channels and the grounding zone of Thwaites Glacier…

Aerial view of tree farms and a building along and between stretches of highway, under blue skies and white clouds.

Researchers from The Ohio State University, led by former Byrd Center member Kyungmin Sung, now a research fellow at the Korea Environment Institute, examined how droughts and rainfall extremes…

Side-by-side, to the left. two people outdoors in front of am orange tent in snow working with equipment. On the right, an image of the ice core in a red tray.

Researchers at The Ohio State University have made a significant discovery in understanding how viruses preserved in glacial ice have adapted to Earth's climatic changes. The study, led by Byrd…

A drone with cameras.

Congratulations to Adam Tjoelker

In mid-June, Adam Tjoelker presented his research at the 12th International Conference on Permafrost in Yukon, where he earned second place for…

Nature view of snow-covered mountain in a distance with a creek and grassy field landscape.

In a recent study published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science & Technology journal, researchers investigated how iron can inhibit the transfer of phosphorus, a…

Vast, calm Ocean as far as the eye can see under dark clouds with rays of orange sunlight shining down.

A study published in Nature Communications utilized advanced sequencing technologies, combining short and long-read sequencing, to examine the population of viruses that infect and…